Lester the Leader Big Barn Farm

# This is Petal She's a piglet and she's brave

-# She can be cheeky

-But she never misbehaves

# This is Gobo He's a very bouncy goat

-# He loves to butt

-And eats too much... #

BURP! Pardon?!

# There's a dinky little donkey Name of Dash

-# If you're in trouble

-Will he help me?

# In a flash

# This is Digger He's a happy little pup

-# Is he cute?

-Dead right

-# Can he bark?

-Not quite

-# And when you put them all together

-And they love to be together

# They'll be friends forever Down on Big Barn Farm. #

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

It's early in the morning on Big Barn Farm...

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

..and Lester thinks it's time for EVERYONE to wake up!

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

-Morning, Madame!

-Bonjour!

Good morning, Digger.

Good morning, Gobo.

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

NEEDLE SCRATCHES

Hang on, Lester!

It's early in the morning!

I think everyone could do with an extra hour's sleep.

I think not!

The early bird catches the worm, as they say.

Cock-a-doodle-doo-o-o-o-o!

Is it time to get up already, Mum?

Lester seems to crow a little earlier every day!

Oh, I'm still tired.

-Gobo's tired too.

-I'm pooped!

Me too! I could go back to sleep right now!

-Early night for ME tonight!

-But we go to bed early every night.

It's just that Lester wakes us up too soon.

Somebody should have a word with him.

Don't worry, Petal. Someone IS. It's Madame.

ACCORDION MUSIC PLAYS

# Moo, la, la!

# Moo, la, la!

# Moo, la, la!

# It's Madame the cow. #

It ees much too early, bird!

I am not ready to make milk so soon.

I have to have a little petit-dejeuner.

Petit-dejeuner - that's French for breakfast.

I'm sorry, Madame, I'd like to help

but I have to get the farmer up to fetch your milk.

Next!

Next it's Mac the horse.

Ahem. I actually heard the farmer say

you were cock-a-doodle-dooing too early.

Oh, you did, did you? I think you'll find that without me

-the whole farm would sleep all day!

-Hm.

Lester thinks nothing would get done

without his cock-a-doodle-do.

In fact, because the smooth running of this farm is thanks to me,

I think I should be the leader!

ALL: LEADER?!

Oh, yes. I'll run things a bit differently round here.

Everyone will be on time when I'm in charge.

Farmyard Bunch! Fall in!

-Petal!

-Yes, sir?

-Gobo!

-Here, sir!

-Dash!

-Here, sir!

-Digger!

-Yes, sir!

And there will be a line-up every day! Get in line, sheep!

Oh, I don't like the look of that, do you, Farmyard Bunch?

No!

Farm life should be e-e-e-asy-going.

With a bit of snoozing in the sun!

Mud baths!

SHE GIGGLES

And plenty of gambolling in the grass! Hee-hee!

Not when I'm the leader of the farm.

Eh? You mean IF you become the leader, Lester!

There's no-one else who can run this place properly, is there?

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

# They'll be friends forever down on Big Barn Farm! #

The Farmyard Bunch think it'll be a disaster

if Lester is the leader of the farm.

I could do it myself if I wasn't a piglet.

We're all too young to be the leader. Madame, why don't YOU do it?

You'd make a lovely leader.

I don't want to be the leader!

No, I like the simple life.

I love good food...

I love my milk being made into smelly cheese!

I love to dance!

Moo-cha-cha, moo-cha-cha!

And I LOVE to sing of LOVE.

# Chanson d'a-MOO-our... #

Uh-oh, Madame's singing about love!

-Quick, Farmyard Bunch!

-Leg it!

Go, go, Gobo!

I'm outta here!

SHE WARBLES

Just terrible!

No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

# Big Barn Farm! #

Mum! Mum!

Petal's telling her mum all about Lester wanting to be the leader.

Leader? No-one wants that puffed-up cocky cockerel as a leader!

Someone must challenge him!

Petal's mum thinks someone must stand up to Lester. But who?

Why don't you have a go, Mum?

Me? Oh, I don't know. I didn't mean ME. I couldn't!

C-Could I?

Petal's got some news for Lester.

Erm, excuse me, Lester.

How may I help young Petal?

Don't you think before you become the leader, there should be a vote?

-Vote?

-Yes, a vote! Y'know, the thing where everyone says

-who they would like most to be the leader.

-I know what a vote is!

-But who else could possibly be the leader?

-My mum, Mrs Snuffles.

WHAT?!

If nobody minds.

HE GUFFAWS

A pig, running a farmyard?

That's the funniest - oh, ho! - thing I ever heard!

All right.

We'll have a vote.

But I've got an idea that will make everyone want me as leader.

So, Lester decides to organise a farmyard football match,

just to make sure the other animals have plenty of fun and vote for him.

Organised fun! That's the name of the game!

Gobo and Digger versus Petal and Dash. Cock-a-doodle-doo!

Kick-off!

-Come here!

-OK, Petal! On me head!

-To you, Dash!

-I've got it!

Go, Farmyard Bunch!

I'm going to try a tackle...

I've got it!

No, I've got it! Petal, to you!

I saved it! Oops!

I'm gonna try something...

-YES!

-Goal!

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

-Petal, to you!

-Oh, no you don't! I've got it! Gobo!

Thanks, Digger!

Over here! Over here!

Whoops! I nearly hit the duck-girls!

Come on, Ref! That's a foul!

No, I'm a fowl! Play on!

This is my big chance!

I've got it! Dash!

-GOAL!

-Too late!

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

And another! Yay!

Watch this, you lot!

Back o' the net!

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

Four-one to Dash and Petal. >

Actually, that really WAS fun.

All the Big Barn Farm animals enjoyed the football match

that Lester organised.

It was great, Mrs Snuffles.

Now everyone will vote for Lester to be the leader.

Hm, that would be terrible.

-You've got to do something, Mum.

-Hm!

So they know you're the best at organising

and will want you to be the leader.

But what can Mrs Snuffles do? Gobo has an idea.

Why don't you organise a sports day?

# Big Barn Farm. #

For their sports day, the Farmyard Bunch have set up a running race...

Look, there's the finishing line.

..a barrel rolling competition and a swimming contest.

Runners, to your marks.

Sounds like the running race is about to start.

Good luck, Farmyard Bunch.

The crowd are excited.

It's a lovely day for it.

Come on. You can do it.

Heads up and run your fastest.

Run like, how you say, the wind.

-This should be good.

-Who's gonna win?

-I can run quite fast myself.

Oh, it's starting.

I'll be cheering you on.

Thanks, Mrs Snuffles.

Are you ready? Steady. GO!

Oi, Digger. Hang on.

Huh?

Digger's off.

He's in the lead. In fact, the others haven't started yet.

He went before "GO".

I've won. Yeah!

-This is fun.

-Fun? Maybe. But not very organised.

Digger's pleased.

And never mind, Dash, maybe you'll do better next time.

The barrel rolling, I'm really good at this.

-Yeah!

-It looks like Gobo has won the barrel rolling competition.

Go! Go! Gobo!

-Quack.

-The duck-girls are taking to the water

for the final heat of the swimming contest.

Quack, quack.

-Go on.

-Chantelle is the first over the line. Well done, Chantelle.

-You go, Chantelle.

-Cool.

Quack, quack.

I like sports day.

It's been a great day.

But what do the rest of the Big Barn Farm animals think?

Do they prefer Lester's football match or Mrs Snuffle's sports day?

Who will they vote for as the leader?

I vote for Mrs Snuffles.

I enjoyed the sports day. Marvellous.

I'm a football fan. Lester as leader.

Hm, Mrs Snuffles for leader.

Lester.

-Lester.

-Mrs Snuffles.

-Mrs Snuffles.

-Please, calm down.

-Oh, get him!

Thank you. It's time to vote.

Big Barn Farm,

decide who your leader should be and vote NOW, please.

ANIMALS NOISILY CONFER

Be quiet!

-Oh!

-What?

Old Pup's turned up. So, who does he think should be the leader?

When you've seen as much as I've seen,

you'll know there's only one leader on Big Barn Farm.

Him.

Oh, look out! It's the farmer.

He's not pleased that everyone is out of their pens, making a mess.

Come on, kids. Let's get back inside.

-Let's go, girls.

-Let's get into the water.

-Let's do it.

-Quack, quack.

I'm off. Goodbye.

I think he's got a cheek!

Time to be off.

He's particularly not pleased to see Lester clucking about.

Especially as Lester woke him up MUCH too early this morning.

So, things are back to normal

with the farmer as the leader of the farm.

Will the farmer let us have a sports day every week?

And a football match?

Why not? You could be the Big Barn Farm team.

Yay! Go, go, Gobo!

I'm going to start training right away.

SMASH!

-Uh-oh!

-We're sorry.

Leg it!

I'm sure the farmer will forgive you, Farmyard Bunch.

That's all for now. See you again soon down on Big Barn Farm.

# This is Petal She's a piglet and she's brave

-# She can be cheeky

-But she never misbehaves

# This is Gobo He's a very bouncy goat

-# He loves to play

-And eats all day...#

BURP! Pardon?!

# There's a dinky little donkey Name of Dash

-# If you're in trouble

-Will he help me?

# In a flash

# This is Digger He's a happy little pup

-# Is he cute?

-Dead right

-# Can he bark?

-Not quite

# The ducks are splashing in and out the pond

-# Mrs Chickens?

-Gossip all day long

-# Madame is French and lovely

-Ooh-la-la

# And we all know who goes cock-a-doodle-do

# Mrs Snuffles and her piglets come to play

# And Old Pup makes sure everyone is safe

# Who's the tallest of them all, it's Matt the horse

# And last, not least, their friends, the sheep

-# Now you've seen them all together

-And they love to be together

# They'll be friends forever Down on Big Barn Farm. #